We just decided to take Luke to China! It will be Chad and I, my mom, and Luke. It really would have decreased my stress level to figure this out before, since now we are rushing to get his passport and visa. We have debated about taking our kids all along, but in the end, we just wanted to have that time with Natalie ourselves. Once we started planning the tours and sightseeing, I felt like it would be too great of an experience for Luke to miss. He is excited and probably a little shocked. I just picked him up at school one day and told him we needed to go get his passport picture immediately.
It will still be awhile before we know for sure, but we are planning on leaving March 6th so that we can arrive in Beijing by the 7th. We will spend a few days there, and then meet our daughter on March 11th. The main thing we are waiting on is something called an Article V which I think I mentioned before. It literally should be coming ANY MINUTE. As soon as that is in, we will wait for our final travel approval, which normally takes about two weeks. According to that timeline, we would have nothing to worry about as far as being ready to travel on March 6th. The problem is that Chinese New Year falls on February 10th, and all government offices shut down for a week! That means our travel approval will be delayed, and without it, Holt cannot schedule our final appointment in China at the US Consulate. Until that appointment is made and confirmed, we will not know for sure that we can travel at that time.
Worst case scenario is that we would go a week later, because the agency has added in another travel date on March 15th. The not knowing and being able to plan is seriously annoying for someone like me!!! I am just sick to death of waiting for things.
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